A farmer had a large garden that he cared for completely. He strove to arrange, organize, irrigate, and fertilize it. It bore much fruit, and he profited greatly from it. The man knew that his three sons hated agriculture and despised the cultivation of orchards. Their goal was to learn something else to get rich quickly.
When the father grew old and felt the end of his life approaching, he called his three sons and said to them: My dear sons, I have left you a large fortune of gold. I placed it in a large pot and hid it in the garden’s land. After my death, dig the earth and search for this fortune if you desire it. The three sons tried to make their father tell them the place where he had put this gold fortune or even show them the direction where it was hidden, but he didn’t answer their request.
The father died, and his sons mourned his death with great sadness. After a few days, they went to the garden with axes to search for the gold fortune their father had hidden in the garden. Since they didn’t know the place where this fortune was placed, they agreed to dig the entire garden earth and turn it over from beginning to end until they found the treasure. They began plowing the earth every day and continued for several weeks. Whenever they completed a part, they moved to another part until they finished turning it all over from beginning to end.
They left nothing without searching or excavating. They searched around the trees and the earth around them. The garden became clean, free of strange plants, weeds, and grasses. But after this continuous effort and hard work, they didn’t find the gold fortune they were searching for under the garden’s earth. They thought their father was joking with them. The three sons were saddened because they worked much, tired much, and found no trace of their work, so they were affected and their chests became tight.
At the time when the garden trees bore fruit and the fruits grew, the sons found the trees had produced a large crop they had never produced before. They saw them filled with large fruits. No wonder, for turning over the earth and caring for it and cleaning it of strange plants was the reason for the abundance and doubling of the crop, as well as the quality of its type and the largeness of its size.
They called merchants to buy the garden fruits, and they bought them for a large amount of gold. The sons received the price from him. They found it filled a pot. The sons saw the abundance of the crop and the large amount of gold he received, so they immediately understood what their father meant by his wisdom and thinking when he said to them: I have left you a gold fortune in the garden, and I won’t tell you its place. Dig the earth and search until you find this fortune.